The Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish and Other Texts - Couverture souple

Vieira, António

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1933227303 ISBN 13 : 9781933227306

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 2009

Synopsis

António Vieira's The Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish and Other Texts is the first collection of his writings to appear in English.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

ANTÓNIO VIEIRA was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1608 and died in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, in 1697. He was an orator, Jesuit missionary, statesman and diplomat, and the author of a great number of sermons, letters, state papers, and the unique, visionary work História do Futuro [History of the Future]. He sought to convince the Jews to return to Portugal and polemically defended the natives against enslavement. He is to Portuguese prose what Camões is to poetry. For the great twentieth-century poet Fernando Pessoa, Vieira was the "Emperor of the Portuguese Language." Vieira is considered the most important Portuguese and Brazilian writer of the Baroque period. His vast oeuvre provides an extraordinary window into the world of the seventeenth century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1933227303
• ISBN 13: 9781933227306
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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